u s t a n g a i l 2 0 0 5 « Mc: A l. I F o K N I A F o L Y T E c: H N I c: S T AD T E U N I V E K S I I T O D A Y ’S WEATHER Guinness and Busy weekend for rock make men s and High for a great women s cross 74 ’ t concert country Low » 1 4 53 IN ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT, 5 IN SPORTS, 8 Volume LXIX, Number 30 Monday, October 17, 2005 wwsv.mustangdaily.net Wheelchair Foundation brings mobility ■»■■•ty'-f w i r - « . è tili n around the world ___ * ■ i.. ■■n Louise Dolby “(living someone a wheelchair is ■ J r MUMANt. DAIIY not just changing their life for one «W.. day,” Emily IkTcnberg a 2(M)4 social C'al Poly students and alumni arc science graduate said. “They are giving the gift o f mobility through now being able to go out and have the Wheelchair Foundation, a non­ an active life. It just really makes yon profit organization seeking to deliv­ realize that a little hit goes a long . o er a wheelchair to everyone who way.” needs one. Another 14-year-old In September, 10 C'.al Poly grad­ (Inatemalan girl has a disease that uates traveled to (iuatemala to ilis- makes her hones very brittle. tribute wheelchairs to people in Without any means of transporta­ need, like Nari, a 13-year-old tion. she was unable to attend ('■uatemalan boy who has been par­ school, but after receiving a wheel­ STEFANO PAI.TERA COUKITSY I’Moio alyzed since birth. For the past seven chair from the Wheelchair C'al Poly faculty adviser Richard Beller and student Austin Quig-Hartman finished Hnal details of the years, Nari crawled up a l.irge hill Foundation, she began first gratle team’s solar-powered home while on the National Mall in Washington D.C. on his hands and knees in order to this fall. get to school. Solar Decathlon takes third in D.C. see Wheelchair, page 2 Joe Sargent (\iliforma, was np Ml SI SNi, DAIIY T. and down m tlie standings for the rhe ('al Poly Solar two weeks o f Í? ■ Heiathloii team took competition. On third place 1 riday under I the final d.iv. (\il the shadow o f the Polv settled at .1 1 11 11 V( s h g t o third behind Moiniment. ( oriiell University I he Solar M and first place Hecathlon. hosted (Tdorado, the amniallv hv the Li.S. defeiulmg champi­ Department o f Eiiergs’. on. took place on the law n “It’s been an of the National Mall in coi ro sy i.rapHl< amazing experi­ Washington I ).( ..'T here. The ('j,| Poly Solar Decathlon team designed this solar-pow' ence." said Sandy IH universities conipet- ered home at the Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. Stannard, a facnlts ( Ol RIISY PHOlO ed to create the most adviser to the pro­ ('.al Poly graduates present Nari, a 13-year-old Ciuatemalan boy, with erticiem and architecturally attractive ''‘ftjr-powered home. a new wheelchair, through the Wheelchair Foundation of ('.al Poly. (\il Polv. the only team fn>m sec Decathlon, page 2 Poly to offer a masters o f arts degree in history Mariecar Mendoza (Mitkin. a Cal Poly history professor — prohibits many people from tak­ M IS I AM . DAIIY and tlie graduate program coordina­ ing a job here," Stefaneo said. “So tor. also added that recent resources we need some other things to fill in (^ll Polys histtiry department will made available m the department on the pins eolnmn for C'al Poly." kick oft its new master's o f arts helped w ith the advaneement o f the Stefaneo added that professors degree in January, a program that program. generally love the idea o f assisting I** C offers eoncentrations in American, “ Popular demand and internal graduate students along their aeade- European, Asian, Latin American and 1 realities made tins a possible direc­ mie career. African history. tion,'' ('otkin said. “ Most faculty, when they're going “We've felt pretty strongly that, I he department, w Inch is already to gr.idnate school, they're thinking, given onr geographic location, it was recruiting new professors for its 'Oh. I want to work in a place really important for ns to give the nndergradiiate program, plans to add w here I can train graduate students,' people ill onr area the option to tliree new hires and hopes the grad­ and so without a graduate program, pursue a master’s degree in history." uate program will add to Cal Poly’s it wasjnst one more thing that made said history department chair appeal. it ditfienlt for ns to reernit," Stefaneo (^irolyn Stefaiu o. “Otherwise, the “ It's become incrcMsingly diftienlt said. closest place to go is Sant.'. Barbara, for C.al Poly and the history depart­ In the midst o f their search, no and not eveiybody wants to innke ment to recruit faculty. We are a new professors have been added to that trip on a regular basis." BRENNAN AN(;EI,musiani ;paiiy great university, we’ve got a great the history depart»nent’s faculty just Five years in the making, the mas­ department, but the cost o f living — yet, but C.otkin is thrilled at the More classes focusing on other countries, like Andrew Morris’ Modern ter's program was created in response East Asia class, will be offered at Cal Poly with the new master’s degree. and the cost o f housing in particular to increasing local interest, (»eorge see History, page 4 NEWS 2 Monday, C')ytobc‘r 17,2( M >5 Washington D.C,. U) show how solar good,” Berenberg said. “We would Cuatemala. This year, the Ckil Poly Decathlon pmver could be applied in any Wheelchair ask kids at the orphan,iges what they Chapter hopes to raise $ 4 4 ,(MI(I and continuefi from page I himie. continued from page 1 liked tii do for fun and they said they send 5b() wheelchairs to Belize. coukln’t really do am thing, not even jLVt. being here is quite an “These future engineers and “While viving the world is an Fourteen Cal Poly students, go to the library because they didn’t including marketing junior Jaime aeeoniplislniieiit.” architectures are some o f the bright­ overwhelming thought, there are have any shoes.” Ransom, are participating in the 1 lie ('al Poly team had to eon- est in the world,” U.S. Secretary of pleiits’ of small ways to make a big Berenberg explained that a new Wheelchair Foundation’s trip to striiet a solar-powered, energy eth- hnergN Samuel Bodman said in a ditfereiice," Bereiiberg said. “1 have library is being built in Cuatemala Belize for their senior projects this “ 1 realized that there is no way that one cieiit and visually elegant home aiiel press release. he innovative tech­ City that will have 12 new comput­ person can truly save the world, year. According to the Fluman then moved it to Washington 1 XC.., nologies the students will present 0 but we can make the vuirld a ■■■ Development Index, one out of where it would be judged. The judg­ demonstrate that the w idespread use better place by impacting the 4 4 every three people in Belize is ing covered everything from how of renewable energ\- to power our life o f one person at a time.” ^ While the world is an living below the poverty line. well a dishwasher and clothes dryer homes may be closer than we think." There are no programs to assist Berenberg became involved oueiwhelmiiiii tlion<iiht, there are ran, to the architecture of the house. One challenge all of the teams people living with disabilities, with the Wheelchair plenty of small ways to make a “We have been performing the faced during the competition was fxHindation in 2003 for her and without mobility the dis­ difference. ’ ’ best with the least power," said the weather. Kainstorms and clouds senior project. Along with 11 abled must be dragged, carried, Kobert Johnsiiii, an electrical engi­ came through for several days, hin­ others, Berenberg organized an or left behind. The disabled chil­ — EMILY BERENBERG dren have no access to education, neering graduate student and the dering the competitions energy auction at the M.idonna Inn social sciences graduate “strategist" ft>r the team. “We are the source. However, this only showed that raised S22,000 and sent 2S0 and the adults cannot work to * support their families. most ert'icient team." how efficient the homes truly were, wheelchairs to Thailand m ers and öfter classes on Microsoft “The gift of a wheelchair provides One of the biggest challenges w'as Johnson said. 2004. Word and Excel. access to opportunity and helps transptirting the house across the I he solar project started two years For the 200.S trip to (iuatemala, “Giving children new shoes does the Wheelchair Foundation needed relieve the burden on a family,” country, Stannard said. C'al I'oly had ago, and since then over 100 Cal more for them than protect their people to help distribute the wheel­ Metcalf said. “It’s impossible to see to transport its house farther across Poly students from numerous majors feet,” she said. “New shoes allow chairs, so they opened the opportu­ the need and not be motivated to land than any other team, so the have participated in creating the them to go to school and going to nity to alumni who then purchased help.” house was designed to be easily home.Twelve Cal Poly students trav­ school will hopefully allow them to their own tickets to travel the dis­ This year’s team is planning a moved and fit onto one truck eled to Washington D.C.